This past Sunday’s episode of the Aaron Sorkin/HBO series The Newsroom was entitled “Unintended Consequences,” and one of the major subplots involved Occupy Wall Street. The Newsroom continues to exist in an alternative universe; in Sorkin’s mind, not only was
In an exclusive to the New York Post, the paper reported Sunday that after 25 years, former New York prosecutor Steven Pagones is finally getting justice from Tawana Brawley. The Post reports that Pagones recently received his first payments from
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) hosted a packed forum about immigration reform in her home district of Houston, Texas last week. For anyone concerned about the specter of “comprehensive” immigration reform becoming legal reality, the event provided two cold, hard
The Dream Defenders have entered their sixteenth day of occupying the Florida Capitol building with support from Rev. Jesse Jackson. Gov. Rick Scott asked for an apology after Jackson made incendiary remarks. The group also began conducting their own mock
The editors at Breitbart News love giving me onerous assignments. While on staff, I’ve visited eight different Occupy Wall Street encampments, was in Lansing, MI two feet from union thugs as they ripped down the Americans for Prosperity tent and
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has stopped the group Dream Defenders who are occupying the Capitol from receiving food deliveries this weekend. Dream Defenders has been holed up in the Capitol building for thirteen days demanding reforms that they call
Entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte blamed the Tea Party for increasing “racial animus” in the United States in an appearance with the Dream Defenders at the Florida State Capitol. In a response to a question from Breitbart News
As the Dream Defenders sit-in against Gov. Rick Scott moves into the tenth day, the State of Florida has begun to push back against the liberal activist group, issuing a report on the costs of the occupation and citing incidents
The Dream Defenders are the group–mostly young and black–who have taken over the Florida state Capitol in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. As you’d expect from the demographic description, they are
In Jacksonville, Florida this past Saturday, hundreds marched in the streets shouting, “No justice, no peace!”as part of Al Sharpton’s call for 100 cities to demonstrate for Trayvon Martin. Speakers in downtown’s Hemming Plaza also railed against Florida’s “Stand Your
Although the Dream Defenders takeover of the Florida State Capitol uses the same tactic of occupation as the Occupy Wall Street movement, in many other ways the movements are polar opposites. As shown in the Steven K. Bannon film Occupy
Conservatives who have argued that the Dream Defenders’ activism in Tallahassee, Florida wasn’t going to achieve anything may have underestimated to ability of mainstream Republicans to erode under pressure. Last week, the group Dream Defenders announced “Takeover Tuesday” in response
While in Tallahassee covering the occupation of the Florida State Capitol by the Dream Defenders, I ran into a young white man who is from the Sanford area and actually knew and had worked with George Zimmerman. Like many people
At noon on the forth day of the Dream Defenders’ sit-in at the Florida State Capitol, the NAACP held a rally on the steps of the old Florida capitol building with the theme “We shall not be moved.” It was
For the second time since the jury cast its verdict in the George Zimmerman case, MoveOn.org has sent out a fundraising letter riding on the coattails of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. Within a few hours of the verdict
Florida Governor Rick Scott was still nowhere to be seen Thursday as protesters angered by George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin occupied his office in Tallahassee for the third day in a row. The doors of
The occupation of Florida Governor Rick Scott’s (R) office by Trayvon Martin supporters entered its second day Wednesday with no clear endgame in sight. The activist group “Dream Defenders” began a sit-in on “Takeover Tuesday,” days after the acquittal of George
Trayvon Martin’s family’s attorneys, Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks appear to have connections to an Astroturf activist group that led protests, marches and other civil disobedience that forced the removal of Sanford, Florida’s police chief, the arrest of George Zimmerman
In the three hours before the verdict was read, the Justice For Trayvon crowd became louder and more agitated. Chants included standbys like “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “The people united will never be defeated!” as well as slogans specific
While jurors deliberated inside the Seminole County Courtroom in Sanford, Florida, a small but vocal group of protesters made speeches, chanted and handed out fliers in the designated “free speech zone” as the media swarmed around them. All the protestors
The Obama Department of Justice made no attempt to stop blatant threats against George Zimmerman, according to one of the people who helped make those threats. Despite issuing a widely publicized threat against Zimmerman last year, the New Black Panther
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, posted an editorial/call to arms in The Guardian that once again promotes his view of America as the oppressor of the world while remaining noticeably silent on the draconian new threat to free speech
The newest Obama scandal is seventeen months old. Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation to gin up charges of racism in the George
The UK Guardian has enjoyed a traffic spike from its sensationalist story about globetrotting intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, spun as part of the anti-military narrative of leftist journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. The reason for the traffic spike is clear:
